[ad_1] By Kelsey Adkisson Newswise – Over the past decade, scientists have been striving to understand the impacts of microplastics. With the breaking of plastic bottles, the washing of the seven billion fleece jackets in the world or the microspheres in facial cleansers, microplastics are accumulating. How they affect living …
Read More »Using machine learning to track the impact of the pandemic on mental health
[ad_1] Newswise – CAMBRIDGE, MA – Coping with a global pandemic has impacted the mental health of millions of people. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard University has shown that they can measure these effects by analyzing the language people use to express their anxiety online. Using machine …
Read More »Using machine learning to track the impact of the pandemic on mental health
[ad_1] Newswise – CAMBRIDGE, MA – Coping with a global pandemic has impacted the mental health of millions of people. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard University has shown that they can measure these effects by analyzing the language people use to express their anxiety online. Using machine …
Read More »Astronomers uncover clues that unravel the mystery of fast radio bursts
[ad_1] Newswise – Fast radio bursts, or FRBs – powerful radio waves lasting milliseconds from deep space outside the Milky Way – have been among the most mysterious astronomical phenomena ever observed. Since FRBs were first discovered in 2007, astronomers around the world have used radio telescopes to track the …
Read More »Reduction of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels due to COVID-19 detected by atmospheric observations
[ad_1] Newswise – Monitoring anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions using atmospheric observations is a major policy-making challenge, such as the Paris Agreement. Huge atmospheric observation networks consisting of a variety of platforms including satellites have been developed to monitor regional / national scale changes in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The outbreak …
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